Hello Mina,
I agree with you that companies/foundations like Mozilla, Red Hat and some
others should promote projects like that, providing special partnerships
and academy programs to keep Computer Science students on the good side of
the code, many of they are moving to the dark side through programs like
Microsoft DreamSpark, Ambassadors Program, Oracle Academy and etc.
In our case on the Brazilian Catalyst Program I'm trying to build a good
relationship with IT Universities bringing students and teachers to the
good side through the Education Program. We are promoting talks, hackathons
and spreading the tech side of the wiki, providing info about all the APIs,
data analysis and tools used to keep the projects running and growing, and
probably, for the next months we will plan something in that field using
our part of our budget with micro grants.
Wikimedia, Wikimedia UK and some others are doing that, but without a
"marketing campaign", IMHO we need only to improve that area to have more
people involved working with us. Unfortunately we cant compete with Google,
Facebook on marketing and budget :( but we are moving in the right
direction, I guess.
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2013/11/19 Mina Theofilatou
theoth@otenet.gr
> Hello all
>
> I just wanted to share a link that I just found. It seems that Facebook is
> running a campaign to encourage Computer Science students to earn academic
> credits by contributing to opensource projects:
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http://venturebeat.com/2013/11/13/facebook-partners-with-22-universities-to-...
> #!
>
> I don't think Facebook should be allowed to do this. Imagine Facebook
> tried to pry its way into Wikimedia: I would expect all of us to revolt. A
> for-profit organization taking advantage of non-profit ideals??? MAKING
> PROFIT on non-profit? Would they even consider converting THEIR project
> into an open-source one? Of course not. Don't Mozilla and other Open Source
> Projects have ways of campaigning to attract CompSci students in their own
> organisations? Why does Facebook have to be the middleman? I find it
> revolting... if this is their idea of corporate social responsibility, I'll
> have to find away to stop using Facebook altogether in reply.
>
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